Climate Change Adaptation as a Social Process

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 42, Issue , 2011, Pages 21-32

  Wolf, Johanna ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptation barriers; Adaptive capacity; Climate change; Developed countries; Risk perception; Social process; Values; Vulnerability; Vulnerable groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 85052391908     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0567-8_2     Document Type: Chapter

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